Teatro Línea de Sombra's Amarillo isn't a piece for Americans per se, it's only being performed in four American cities on its tour, but when contextualized in a place like Seattle, it is suddenly about people looking for the life that the audience has.

Nothing less than the total sacrifice of your identity, your past, the joys of family and comfort of any success. With only a desperate hope (and somewhat naive understanding of what lies ahead), armed with only the steel resolve of a soul's innate knowing, effecting nothing less than a complete evisceration of what is known, plunging into the dark across a sea of impossible change.

Kyle Loven is coming to On the Board's Studio Theater December 5-9 where he will take us on a trip into the world of Loss Machine. Loven's influences include Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal and his work has been compared to the films of Jan Svankmajer, the Czech surrealist film maker . . . I can barely begin to imagine how quirky, endearing, and imaginative this performance will be.